IXL Skill Plan | California English Language Development Standards: Grade 3

California English Language Development Standards: Grade 3

Skills available for California third-grade language arts standards

Part

Interacting in Meaningful Ways
Learning About How English Works
Using Foundational Literacy Skills

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PI.3	Interacting in Meaningful Ways
PI.3.A Collaborative
PI.3.1 Exchanging information and ideas with others through oral collaborative discussions on a range of social and academic topics
PI.3.1 Exchanging information and ideas with others through oral collaborative discussions on a range of social and academic topics


PI.3.2 Interacting with others in written English in various communicative forms (print, communicative technology, and multimedia)
PI.3.2 Interacting with others in written English in various communicative forms (print, communicative technology, and multimedia)


PI.3.3 Offering and supporting opinions and negotiating with others in communicative exchanges		1. Distinguish facts from opinions 2. Choose reasons to support an opinion 3. Complete the opinion passage with an example 4. Complete the opinion passage with a reason 5. Complete the opinion-reason-example table
PI.3.3 Offering and supporting opinions and negotiating with others in communicative exchanges
1. Distinguish facts from opinions 2. Choose reasons to support an opinion 3. Complete the opinion passage with an example 4. Complete the opinion passage with a reason 5. Complete the opinion-reason-example table

PI.3.4 Adapting language choices to various contexts (based on task, purpose, audience, and text type)		Author's purpose 1. Identify the author's purpose: mixed media 2. Identify the author's purpose: passages 3. Choose the text that matches the writer's purpose Descriptive details 4. Sort sensory details 5. Add descriptive details to sentences 6. Revise the sentence using a stronger verb Word choice 7. Shades of meaning with pictures 8. Positive and negative connotation
PI.3.4 Adapting language choices to various contexts (based on task, purpose, audience, and text type)
Author's purpose 1. Identify the author's purpose: mixed media 2. Identify the author's purpose: passages 3. Choose the text that matches the writer's purpose Descriptive details 4. Sort sensory details 5. Add descriptive details to sentences 6. Revise the sentence using a stronger verb Word choice 7. Shades of meaning with pictures 8. Positive and negative connotation
PI.3.B Interpretive
PI.3.5 Listening actively to spoken English in a range of social and academic contexts
PI.3.5 Listening actively to spoken English in a range of social and academic contexts


PI.3.6 Reading closely literary and informational texts and viewing multimedia to determine how meaning is conveyed explicitly and implicitly through language		Sequence 1. Order events in a story Inference and analysis 2. Draw inferences from a text 3. Make predictions about a story Point of view 4. Distinguish points of view Compare texts 5. Compare information from two informational texts Author's purpose 6. Identify the author's purpose: mixed media 7. Identify the author's purpose: passages Theme 8. Determine the themes of myths, fables, and folktales Story elements 9. Identify story elements Character analysis 10. Use actions and dialogue to understand characters 11. Show character emotions and traits Text features 12. Use text features Main idea and key details 13. Use key details to determine the main idea 14. Determine the main idea of a passage Text structure 15. Determine the order of events in informational texts 16. Compare and contrast in informational texts 17. Match causes with effects 18. Match causes and effects in informational texts 19. Match problems with their solutions 20. Identify and analyze text structures Summary 21. Summarize a story Analyze literary texts: level 1 22. Read fantasy with illustrations 23. Read historical fiction with illustrations 24. Read science fiction with illustrations 25. Read realistic fiction with illustrations Analyze literary texts: level 2 26. Read realistic fiction: set 1 27. Read realistic fiction: set 2 28. Read historical fiction 29. Read poetry 30. Read drama Analyze informational texts: level 1 31. Read about animals 32. Read about food 33. Read about art, music, and traditions 34. Read about sports and hobbies Analyze informational texts: level 2 35. Read about famous people 36. Read about famous places 37. Read about business and technology 38. Read about science and nature Analyze visual and graphic elements 39. Compare mythological illustrations 40. Read graphic organizers
PI.3.6 Reading closely literary and informational texts and viewing multimedia to determine how meaning is conveyed explicitly and implicitly through language
Sequence 1. Order events in a story Inference and analysis 2. Draw inferences from a text 3. Make predictions about a story Point of view 4. Distinguish points of view Compare texts 5. Compare information from two informational texts Author's purpose 6. Identify the author's purpose: mixed media 7. Identify the author's purpose: passages Theme 8. Determine the themes of myths, fables, and folktales Story elements 9. Identify story elements Character analysis 10. Use actions and dialogue to understand characters 11. Show character emotions and traits Text features 12. Use text features Main idea and key details 13. Use key details to determine the main idea 14. Determine the main idea of a passage Text structure 15. Determine the order of events in informational texts 16. Compare and contrast in informational texts 17. Match causes with effects 18. Match causes and effects in informational texts 19. Match problems with their solutions 20. Identify and analyze text structures Summary 21. Summarize a story Analyze literary texts: level 1 22. Read fantasy with illustrations 23. Read historical fiction with illustrations 24. Read science fiction with illustrations 25. Read realistic fiction with illustrations Analyze literary texts: level 2 26. Read realistic fiction: set 1 27. Read realistic fiction: set 2 28. Read historical fiction 29. Read poetry 30. Read drama Analyze informational texts: level 1 31. Read about animals 32. Read about food 33. Read about art, music, and traditions 34. Read about sports and hobbies Analyze informational texts: level 2 35. Read about famous people 36. Read about famous places 37. Read about business and technology 38. Read about science and nature Analyze visual and graphic elements 39. Compare mythological illustrations 40. Read graphic organizers

PI.3.7 Evaluating how well writers and speakers use language to support ideas and opinions with details or reasons depending on modality, text type, purpose, audience, topic, and content area		1. Identify the author's purpose: mixed media 2. Identify the author's purpose: passages 3. Identify supporting details in informational texts 4. Identify supporting details in literary texts
PI.3.7 Evaluating how well writers and speakers use language to support ideas and opinions with details or reasons depending on modality, text type, purpose, audience, topic, and content area
1. Identify the author's purpose: mixed media 2. Identify the author's purpose: passages 3. Identify supporting details in informational texts 4. Identify supporting details in literary texts

PI.3.8 Analyzing how writers and speakers use vocabulary and other language resources for specific purposes (to explain, persuade, entertain, etc.) depending on modality, text type, purpose, audience, topic, and content area		Author's purpose 1. Choose the text that matches the writer's purpose Synonyms and antonyms 2. Choose the synonym 3. Choose the antonym Multiple-meaning words 4. Multiple-meaning words with pictures 5. Which definition matches the sentence? 6. Which sentence matches the definition? Word choice 7. Shades of meaning with pictures 8. Describe the difference between related words 9. Positive and negative connotation
PI.3.8 Analyzing how writers and speakers use vocabulary and other language resources for specific purposes (to explain, persuade, entertain, etc.) depending on modality, text type, purpose, audience, topic, and content area
Author's purpose 1. Choose the text that matches the writer's purpose Synonyms and antonyms 2. Choose the synonym 3. Choose the antonym Multiple-meaning words 4. Multiple-meaning words with pictures 5. Which definition matches the sentence? 6. Which sentence matches the definition? Word choice 7. Shades of meaning with pictures 8. Describe the difference between related words 9. Positive and negative connotation
PI.3.C Productive
PI.3.9 Expressing information and ideas in formal oral presentations on academic topics
PI.3.9 Expressing information and ideas in formal oral presentations on academic topics


PI.3.10 Writing literary and informational texts to present, describe, and explain ideas and information, using appropriate technology		Writer's purpose 1. Choose the text that matches the writer's purpose Organization 2. Put the sentences in order 3. Organize information by topic Development and support 4. Distinguish facts from opinions 5. Identify supporting details in informational texts 6. Identify supporting details in literary texts Research skills 7. Identify and correct plagiarism Topic sentences 8. Select the detail that does not support the topic sentence 9. Choose topic sentences for narrative paragraphs 10. Choose topic sentences for expository paragraphs Descriptive details 11. Add descriptive details to sentences 12. Show character emotions and traits 13. Revise the sentence using a stronger verb Edit and revise 14. Correct errors with signs
PI.3.10 Writing literary and informational texts to present, describe, and explain ideas and information, using appropriate technology
Writer's purpose 1. Choose the text that matches the writer's purpose Organization 2. Put the sentences in order 3. Organize information by topic Development and support 4. Distinguish facts from opinions 5. Identify supporting details in informational texts 6. Identify supporting details in literary texts Research skills 7. Identify and correct plagiarism Topic sentences 8. Select the detail that does not support the topic sentence 9. Choose topic sentences for narrative paragraphs 10. Choose topic sentences for expository paragraphs Descriptive details 11. Add descriptive details to sentences 12. Show character emotions and traits 13. Revise the sentence using a stronger verb Edit and revise 14. Correct errors with signs

PI.3.11 Supporting own opinions and evaluating others' opinions in speaking and writing		Facts and opinions 1. Distinguish facts from opinions 2. Identify an author's statement of opinion Opinions, reasons and examples 3. Choose reasons to support an opinion 4. Complete the opinion passage with an example 5. Complete the opinion passage with a reason 6. Complete the opinion-reason-example table
PI.3.11 Supporting own opinions and evaluating others' opinions in speaking and writing
Facts and opinions 1. Distinguish facts from opinions 2. Identify an author's statement of opinion Opinions, reasons and examples 3. Choose reasons to support an opinion 4. Complete the opinion passage with an example 5. Complete the opinion passage with a reason 6. Complete the opinion-reason-example table

PI.3.12 Selecting and applying varied and precise vocabulary and language structures to effectively convey ideas		Descriptive details 1. Sort sensory details 2. Add descriptive details to sentences 3. Show character emotions and traits 4. Revise the sentence using a stronger verb Prefixes 5. Determine the meaning of a word with pre-, re-, or mis- 6. Use the prefixes pre-, re-, and mis- Suffixes 7. Determine the meaning of a word with -ful or -less 8. Determine the meaning of a word with -ly or -ness 9. Determine the meaning of a word with -able or -ment 10. Determine the meaning of a word with a suffix: review Base words, prefixes and suffixes 11. Identify base words, prefixes, and suffixes 12. Determine the meanings of words with prefixes and suffixes: review 13. Sort words with shared prefixes and suffixes by meaning 14. Sort words with shared suffixes by part of speech Greek and Latin roots 15. Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words 16. Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots 17. Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots Word patterns 18. Word pattern sentences Categories 19. Select the members of a group 20. Select the words that don't belong Synonyms 21. Choose the synonym 22. Find synonyms in context Antonyms 23. Choose the antonym 24. Find antonyms in context Homophones 25. Homophones with pictures 26. Use the correct homophone Multiple-meaning words 27. Multiple-meaning words with pictures 28. Which definition matches the sentence? 29. Which sentence matches the definition? Shades of meaning 30. Shades of meaning with pictures 31. Describe the difference between related words 32. Positive and negative connotation Idioms 33. Choose the picture that matches the idiomatic expression Figurative language 34. Similes with pictures 35. Determine the meanings of similes Vocabulary in context 36. Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context 37. Use context to identify the meaning of a word Nouns 38. Use regular plurals with -s, -es, and -ies 39. Form and use irregular plurals 40. Form the singular or plural possessive Verbs 41. Use action verbs Adjectives and adverbs 42. Choose between adjectives and adverbs 43. Use adjectives to compare 44. Use adverbs to compare Academic vocabulary 45. Use academic vocabulary in context
PI.3.12 Selecting and applying varied and precise vocabulary and language structures to effectively convey ideas
Descriptive details 1. Sort sensory details 2. Add descriptive details to sentences 3. Show character emotions and traits 4. Revise the sentence using a stronger verb Prefixes 5. Determine the meaning of a word with pre-, re-, or mis- 6. Use the prefixes pre-, re-, and mis- Suffixes 7. Determine the meaning of a word with -ful or -less 8. Determine the meaning of a word with -ly or -ness 9. Determine the meaning of a word with -able or -ment 10. Determine the meaning of a word with a suffix: review Base words, prefixes and suffixes 11. Identify base words, prefixes, and suffixes 12. Determine the meanings of words with prefixes and suffixes: review 13. Sort words with shared prefixes and suffixes by meaning 14. Sort words with shared suffixes by part of speech Greek and Latin roots 15. Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words 16. Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots 17. Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots Word patterns 18. Word pattern sentences Categories 19. Select the members of a group 20. Select the words that don't belong Synonyms 21. Choose the synonym 22. Find synonyms in context Antonyms 23. Choose the antonym 24. Find antonyms in context Homophones 25. Homophones with pictures 26. Use the correct homophone Multiple-meaning words 27. Multiple-meaning words with pictures 28. Which definition matches the sentence? 29. Which sentence matches the definition? Shades of meaning 30. Shades of meaning with pictures 31. Describe the difference between related words 32. Positive and negative connotation Idioms 33. Choose the picture that matches the idiomatic expression Figurative language 34. Similes with pictures 35. Determine the meanings of similes Vocabulary in context 36. Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context 37. Use context to identify the meaning of a word Nouns 38. Use regular plurals with -s, -es, and -ies 39. Form and use irregular plurals 40. Form the singular or plural possessive Verbs 41. Use action verbs Adjectives and adverbs 42. Choose between adjectives and adverbs 43. Use adjectives to compare 44. Use adverbs to compare Academic vocabulary 45. Use academic vocabulary in context

PII.3	Learning About How English Works
PII.3.A Structuring Cohesive Texts
PII.3.1 Understanding text structure		Text structure 1. Compare and contrast in informational texts 2. Match causes with effects 3. Match causes and effects in informational texts 4. Match problems with their solutions 5. Identify and analyze text structures Topic sentences 6. Select the detail that does not support the topic sentence 7. Choose topic sentences for narrative paragraphs 8. Choose topic sentences for expository paragraphs Organization 9. Put the sentences in order 10. Organize information by topic
PII.3.1 Understanding text structure
Text structure 1. Compare and contrast in informational texts 2. Match causes with effects 3. Match causes and effects in informational texts 4. Match problems with their solutions 5. Identify and analyze text structures Topic sentences 6. Select the detail that does not support the topic sentence 7. Choose topic sentences for narrative paragraphs 8. Choose topic sentences for expository paragraphs Organization 9. Put the sentences in order 10. Organize information by topic

PII.3.2 Understanding cohesion		Pronouns 1. Replace the noun with a personal pronoun Linking words 2. Use time-order words 3. Use linking words to complete a passage Transitions 4. Choose the best transition Conjunctions 5. Use coordinating conjunctions 6. Use subordinating conjunctions
PII.3.2 Understanding cohesion
Pronouns 1. Replace the noun with a personal pronoun Linking words 2. Use time-order words 3. Use linking words to complete a passage Transitions 4. Choose the best transition Conjunctions 5. Use coordinating conjunctions 6. Use subordinating conjunctions
PII.3.B Expanding and Enriching Ideas
PII.3.3 Using verbs and verb phrases		Action verbs 1. Use action verbs Regular past tense 2. Which sentence is in the regular past tense? 3. Form and use the regular past tense To be and to have verbs 4. To be: use the correct form 5. To have: use the correct form Past, present, and future tense 6. Change the sentence to future tense
PII.3.3 Using verbs and verb phrases
Action verbs 1. Use action verbs Regular past tense 2. Which sentence is in the regular past tense? 3. Form and use the regular past tense To be and to have verbs 4. To be: use the correct form 5. To have: use the correct form Past, present, and future tense 6. Change the sentence to future tense

PII.3.4 Using nouns and noun phrases		1. Use regular plurals with -s, -es, and -ies 2. Form and use irregular plurals 3. Form the singular or plural possessive 4. Use adjectives to compare
PII.3.4 Using nouns and noun phrases
1. Use regular plurals with -s, -es, and -ies 2. Form and use irregular plurals 3. Form the singular or plural possessive 4. Use adjectives to compare

PII.3.5 Modifying to add details		Adverbs 1. Does the adverb tell you how, when, or where? 2. Use adverbs to compare Prepositions 3. Identify prepositions 4. Identify prepositions and their objects 5. Identify prepositional phrases 6. Prepositions: review
PII.3.5 Modifying to add details
Adverbs 1. Does the adverb tell you how, when, or where? 2. Use adverbs to compare Prepositions 3. Identify prepositions 4. Identify prepositions and their objects 5. Identify prepositional phrases 6. Prepositions: review
PII.3.C Connecting and Condensing Ideas
PII.3.6 Connecting ideas		1. Use coordinating conjunctions 2. Use subordinating conjunctions 3. Use linking words to complete a passage 4. Create compound sentences
PII.3.6 Connecting ideas
1. Use coordinating conjunctions 2. Use subordinating conjunctions 3. Use linking words to complete a passage 4. Create compound sentences

PII.3.7 Condensing ideas		1. Combine sentences: subjects and predicates 2. Combine sentences by adding key details 3. Create varied sentences based on models
PII.3.7 Condensing ideas
1. Combine sentences: subjects and predicates 2. Combine sentences by adding key details 3. Create varied sentences based on models

PIII.3	Using Foundational Literacy Skills
Phonics, word recognition, and fluency		1. Identify syllable types 2. Read multisyllabic words 3. Spell words with open and closed syllables 4. Spell consonant-l-e words
Phonics, word recognition, and fluency
1. Identify syllable types 2. Read multisyllabic words 3. Spell words with open and closed syllables 4. Spell consonant-l-e words